Mover Mike

Daily Tech reports on the findings from the Univ of Illinois Arctic Climate Research Center: Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979

Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent months, global sea ice levels now equal those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew to a close.

Doesn’t that just beat all. We were so worried about those polar bear running our of ice from the consequences of (gasp) global warming.

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I’ve monitoring the Whats going on at yellowstone? thread at Abovetopsecret.com.  They noticed an unusual occcurance on the webicorders that lasts about four minutes and was occuring every hour or hour and a half and now is occuring about every 32 minutes.  Take a look at LKWY and notice the dark squiggly line at 1:35, 2:33, 3:32, 4:41, etc. The last one occurred at 11:40. All times are MST.

The chart courtesy of Shirakawa at Abovetopsecret.com (Click to enlarge) shows the duration increasing and the interval between events decreasing.

They are speculating that there may be a geyser forming underwater in Yellowstone lake. Nick_Crawley writes:

We noticed that events were getting bigger and stronger and predicted that IF THE MAGMA WERE RISING OR HEATING UP UNDER THE LAKE that the period it would take for the vent to erupt would get shorter and the interval of the eruptions would trend larger. Look at 1/6. That’s precisely what’s happening, as predicted. The intervals are trending shorter. The eruptions are trending longer.

Other than this recurring squiggle, there is no significant seismic activity.

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One of the easiest ways to determine the trend in the new year is to simply connect the dots. In this five minute video, Adam Hewison of MarketClub explains how you can connect the dots in any market to determine its trend. He will show you three examples of connecting the dots.

1. How to determine a downtrend.
2. How to determine an uptrend.
3. How to determine when a market is making a change of direction.

One of the key components to look for is how a market closes on a Friday or the last trading day of the week. This is when traders have to decide what they want to do with their positions. It also tells you with a high degree of probability which way the market is headed for the upcoming week. He learned this trading secret on the floor of the exchange in Chicago and it is one he would like to share with you today.

I feel that this technique has a lot of validity, particularly in light of today’s volatile markets.

Enjoy the video.

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Oregon State beats USC 62-58 in overtime for first PAC-10 win since 2007!

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The Volcanism Blog says the

Chaitén volcano in southern Chile is still erupting, eight months after bursting into life on 2 May 2008.

For pictures of the eruption in May: http://www.nuestroclima.com/blog/?p=1003

We do not want to experience that here in the U.S.!

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It appears we experienced one of the top three types in Yellowstone as a result of the Indonesian earthquakes at 7.5+, but probably not harmonic tremors signaling magma movement, although it sure looked like it at the time. Thanks to all of you that corrected UTC time for MST. It is not time to move to Europe from Kansas. I hope for all of us it never is!

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According to The Associated Press, a federal grand jury is investigating how a California company that contributed to Mr. Richardson’s political activities won a lucrative New Mexico state contract:

Perhaps it’s time for Hillary Clinton to withdraw her name as well!

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That last line definitely looks harmonic! That’s at YFT, the Old Faithful station.

UPDATE: This may be a ringing or reaction of the earth to the 7.6 that struck Indonesia.

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Morpheus is showing a rising Sour Creek Dome:

If you take a look at the unfiltered plot of the continued uplift of the Sour Creek Dome here… (third graph down) you can see for the very last section a new line emerging. The most recent “cloud” of data points are marked in red. See the highest one? If you look to it’s left you can see a trail of points going back into the main data set.

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Here’s an amazing piece of work showing all the earthquakes and their intensities at Yellowstone. It’s done by Arnoud Buzing at the Wolfram Blog Scroll down toward the bottom of his post for the movie.

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